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A portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming describes how, during a conference of scientific and political representatives from twenty-five key nations of the world, he managed to convince them to adopt a unified standard for telling time that incorporated the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system for measuring longitude and telling time. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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- VerlagVintage
- Erscheinungsdatum2002
- ISBN 10 0375727523
- ISBN 13 9780375727528
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten272
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Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
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Penguin Random House LLC Apr 2002, 2002
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately threatened to impede progress. The creation of standard time, with its two dozen global time zones, is one of the great inventions of the Victorian Era, yet it has been largely taken for granted.In Time Lord, Clark Blaise re-creates the life of Sanford Fleming, who struggled to convince the world to accept standard time. It's a fascinating story of science, politics, nationalism, and the determined vision of one man who changed the world. Set in a time marked by substantial technological and cultural transformation, Time Lord is also an erudite exploration of art, literature, consciousness, and our changing relationship to time. Artikel-Nr. 9780375727528
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Time Lord
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002
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Zustand: New. Clark Blaise, former head of the Iowa Writer’s Program, lives in San Francisco.It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time z. Artikel-Nr. 897911875
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